Rowdy Girl Sanctuary
Renee King-Sonnen married to a generational cattle rancher. She is a former country singer who liked to practice her guitar in the meadow where her husband's herd grazed. Then, she began noticing things. The cows seemed to understand her and communicate with her... and she with them. She looked into their eyes and saw their love for their family members. Then, she saw the anguish of the mama cows as their babies were ripped from them and put in a red trailer to be taken for sale and, ultimately, slaughter. She watched the mamas run frantically along the pasture's edge, chasing the trailer that was taking their terrified and confused babies away. She lay awake in bed listening to their grief-stricken moans. Renee King-Sonnen had a moment of clarity and realized she couldn't abide by what was happening for even one more day. She went vegan and began a secret campaign to raise money to buy out her husband's herd and save the cows she had grown to love and respect and consider family.
After a battle of wills with her husband, she accomplished what, to many, seemed like an impossible mission. She did, indeed, turn her husband's cattle ranch into a vegan farmed animal sanctuary. And, she even turned her husband vegan. Today, Renee King-Sonnen and her husband Tommy Sonnen are leading animal rights activists. A movie has just been made about them called Rowdy Girl. And, she is writing a book. Their story is extraordinary. Now, meet some of the beautiful and innocent animals they have rescued from despair and death. To learn more and get involved, please visit: https://rowdygirlsanctuary.org/
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Texas Is Going Vegan
Texas Is Going Vegan was performed by Renee King-Sonnen and Jane Velez-Mitchell on location at the Rowdy Girl Sanctuary in Texas, surrounded by cows rescued from the horrors of factory farming. Renee and Jane had been on their own self-styled Texas Vegan Tour, which took them from VegFests to cam...
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Happy Rescued Animals at Rowdy Girl Sanctuary
This is what happy animals look like. And, when you are watching, you'll realize that pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys, goats and lambs are just like dogs and cats. They love their family and friends, want to roam free and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine. They love to bathe and play too. Check it o...
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This is Rowdy Girl Sanctuary
Whaaaaat? Yessiree, that is exactly what happened. Renee King-Sonnen married Tommy Sonnen, a multi-generational cattle rancher. Renee, a former country singer, liked to practice her guitar in the meadow where the herd of cows grazed. It was there that Renee had a spiritual experienced and realize...
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The Rescue
Renee King-Sonnen and her husband Tommy Sonnen set out on an adventure to rescue two turkeys who were bred by children as part of Future Farmers of America. Instead of betraying the animals raised as friends by sending them to slaughter, Renee and Tommy move in to offer a different ending, a happ...
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Reunited & It Feels So Good!
Cows race with joy as they are reunited at the Rowdy Girl Sanctuary in Texas. Cindy and Richard Traylor are former cattle ranchers who decided to give the last members of their herd a chance for freedom and to live with their family members. Missy, the cow, came to the sanctuary first. She was cl...
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Sealy the Turkey
"Society sees turkeys as a Thanksgiving dinner. Sealy, when you look in her eyes when you're talking, you know that there's somebody in there looking back at you that sees you and understands what is going on. This bird is like a family member in a big, big way." So says Renee King-Sonnen, founde...
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Alena Couldn't Send Her Friend Gizmo to Slaughter
We all know the names of the farm programs that teach children to raise and fall in love with a farmed animal and then betray them by sending them off to slaughter. Rowdy Girl Sanctuary, and most other sanctuaries around the United States are constantly inundated with calls from distraught childr...
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Meet the Goats!
Meet some of the goat members of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary in Texas. Two of the goats were thrown out in a field and left to die. Another was rescued from a slaughterhouse in Houston. Yet another managed to get out of the fate awaiting them as part of FFA. But, now they are happy, safe and living out ...
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Jan Is a Protective Mama! That's All!
Jan and Dusty are a mother/son pair now living their best lives at the Rowdy Girl Sanctuary in Texas. But, getting them there was quite the challenge. Renee King-Sonnen and her husband Tommy are former cattle ranchers who went vegan and turned their ranch into a vegan farmed animal sanctuary. The...
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Meet Grace and Randy
Renee King-Sonnen is right there to great Grace and her baby Randy. Here's how Renee describes the situation that led these two innocent beings to end up at Rowdy Girl Sanctuary. "Born on a cattle ranch in Nacogdoches, TX, these two bovine are a couple of the very rare lucky ones. A couple of mon...
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Buster the Baby
Believe it or not, this happens a lot. Cattle ranchers do fall in love with some of the members of their herd and just can't bring themselves to send that particular animal to slaughter. That's what happened with Buster, who ended up getting bottle fed by Renee King-Sonnen of the Rowdy Girl Sanct...
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Brownie
Like many calves in the nightmarish world of industrialized animal agriculture, Brownie was ripped from his mother immediately after birth. Still dripping wet from afterbirth, he was tossed onto a truck. He almost didn't make it. Thankfully, he was taken in by kind people who raised him with comp...
